Page 113 of At the Edge of Surrender

And I knew answering it honestly would change everything. That I was allowing myself to go dip my toes into the waters that I’d promised myself I wouldn’t. I knew what direction the conversation would go. Could almost taste it in the air. But I couldn’t resist that lure in his voice.

Me

I felt free for the first time in my life.

Dragon

Is that what you want, for me to set you free? You want me to send you soaring the way I did before? Know the pleasure I brought you. And I can’t help but sit here thinking of all the ways I want to doit again.

Desire flamed, and I gulped around the knot in my throat.

Me

You know we can’t go there.

Dragon

Think your pussy says otherwise. Tell me, Emery, are you dripping right now? Thinking about all the dirty things I could do to you?

Brazen.

There were no other words for this man.

I squeezed my thighs together as if it might be enough to sate the ache.

Me

No.

Dragon

Sweet little lies.

I could almost hear that low chuckle rumbled out with the words.

Me

Even if I was, we can’t act on them.

Dragon

Maybe you just need me to become your fantasy.

He already was. My every fantasy. One of my greatest regrets and my dirtiest secret.

Dragon

Do you touch yourself, thinking about me right down the hall from you? Because I promise you that I do. Knowing you’re twenty feet away, tucked behind that door, that sweet little body in that bed. My cock has been stone since the second I met you.

Heat rushed across my skin, tremors rolling with the flames.

What was he doing to me? I knew better. Knew I was treading a thin line, but there I was, toeing it, anyway.

My trembling fingers tapped out the confession.

Me

I never have. Not until you.

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